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marți, 23 decembrie 2014

The open source (node-based) compositor Natron has just seen it's official 1.0.0 stable release, and it contains a long list of improvements.
OpenFX-focused processing in a 32bit float linear color pipeline,
OpenColorIO-based color management, OpenImageIO-based support for DPX,
EXR, TIFF, PNG etc.
Natron has received many improvements since the last
published release candidate. You can see the change-log right here or in the About window within Natron.
This is the first stable release planned to be maintained.
The quick list of new features is:

much lower RAM footprint thanks to improved caching strategy;

new HSVTool node for color grading in HSV or color replacement, new HSVToRGB and RGBToHSV nodes;

new Saturation node to adjust just the color saturation;

new DiskCache node for caching a branch of a compositing tree to disk;

tracking is threaded now to deliver better performance.

The following features are included in the plans for Natron v1.1 and already almost implemented:

Optical flow: This will be integrated with a set of different
plug-ins handling motion vectors. The motion vectors will be generated
with a VectorGenerator node and used within several effects such as
Motion blur or Retiming.

’G’mic integration: G’mic is a full featured image processing
framework containing literally hundreds of effects. It will be proposed
as a separate OpenFX plug-in not distributed with Natron due to license
issues.

In the meantime, you can get more informations about the project and Natron more specifically in FAQ section.

luni, 22 decembrie 2014

Ashampoo Office 2010 is a powerful, efficient, yet easy to handle office
software that serves the needs of both private users and companies.
Create extensive documents fast and with total ease, streamline and
enhance your spreadsheets with meaningful charts, and grab your
audience’s attention with multimedia-based presentations.
With the word processor Ashampoo TextMaker, the spreadsheet Ashampoo
PlanMaker, and the presentation graphics program Ashampoo Presentations,
Ashampoo Office 2010 provides you with the most important applications
for home and office use alike.And best of all: you can simply install Ashampoo Office 2010 on a USB stick – and never leave your home without your office suite ever again
For portable version run: %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Ashampoo\Ashampoo Office 2010\usbstick.exe or %ProgramFiles%\Ashampoo\Ashampoo Office 2010\usbstick.exe

miercuri, 17 decembrie 2014

My Music Collection provides you with an innovative way to organize and
manage your CDs, vinyl records and other media. This music collection
software is designed to meet the needs any kind of collectors – from
home users with large collections to professional DJs.
This music collection software provides options for adding either CDs
or vinyl records. Simply insert a CD and My Music Software will
automatically pull all information from several online databases. The
program also does an excellent job in searching through, filtering and
managing your music collection. You can create as many user-defined
tracking categories as you want, and attach as many of these as you want
to any CD, record or track.

marți, 16 decembrie 2014

Krita version 2.9, currently in public
beta, brings a long list of improvements to the paint package’s UI and
overall workflow, along with a revamped transform tool and a new colour
selector.
The Krita team has released the first public beta of Krita 2.9, the
latest release of the open-source paint package, adding a new Liquify
tool, a new colour selector, and a lot of workflow improvements.
Krita has been steadily adapting itself to a professional user base
in recent releases, adding support for OpenColorIO and the option to
export layered PSD files in version 2.6, and full Windows support in version 2.8.

New Transform tool, better brush tools, better colour handling
The most significant single feature is probably the revamped Transform
tool, which now supports Perspective, Cage and Liquify transformations.
There is also a new non-destructive transformation mask type.
Changes to the brush tools include better anti-aliasing and the
long-awaited separation of Flow and Opacity. Colour handling has also
been overhauled, with a new colour selector with sliders for every
colour model.UI improvements and file format support
There are also a lot of changes affecting overall workflow: the option
to open more than one image in a window, or the same image in multiple
windows, is one that many artists will find important.
The release also improves support for RAW and PSD files, with all but four PSD blending modes supported.
Photoshop layer styles and layer masks – a target of Krita’s successful recent Kickstarter campaign – are not suppported in version 2.9, but should follow by the end of January.Availability
Krita 2.9 Beta 1 is available now. Stable builds are available for Linux
and Windows; Mac OS X users get an unofficial build missing some
features, particularly in the brush engine.
Krita Sketch and Krita Gemini, which provide touch support on
suitable devices, have been disabled in the beta version, but should be
restated in the final release, which is due in January.

AOMEI Partition Assistant Pro is a complete, simple, and reliable
partition software and disk manager for Windows PCs and laptops. It
brings a set of powerful tools to maximize disk space use and improve
overall performance of your computer.

Audio Converter to MP3, M4A, WMA, WAV, AAC

Join Audio Files

Convert
multiple audio files at once or merge several tracks into one for an
endless playing. Make a medley free and easily with our music converter.
Merge two MP3 files, combine several WMA audio tracks, join any OGG or
FLAC files, etc.

miercuri, 10 decembrie 2014

Darktable is a free and open-source photography workflow application and raw developer similar to Adobe Lightroom. A virtual lighttable and darkroom for photographers. It
manages your digital negatives in a database, lets you view them through
a zoomable lighttable and enables you to develop raw images and enhance
them.
The new version 1.6 comes with a new Slideshow mode and some other interesting changes:

luni, 8 decembrie 2014

Tipard DVD to MP4 Converter works great in converting any DVD into MP4,
AVI, MOV and other popular digital video formats. After converting DVD
with this converter, you can enjoy your DVD movies on your computer with
video player. By selecting different profiles, you can even enjoy the
DVD movies on your mobile devices. It supports most popular media player
devices, including iPhone (iPhone 6/6 Plus/5/5s/4/4S/3GS), iPad (iPad
Air/Air 2/mini/mini 2/mini 3, etc.), LG phone, HTC phone, Samsung phone
(Galaxy series and Note series included), Sony Walkman, PSP, Creative
Zen, Zune, Xbox, etc. It is able to convert DVD to MP4, AVI, M4V, MOV,
WMV, FLV, 3GP, etc. and HD video formats including HD H.264, HD AVI, HD
MPEG 4, HD MOV, etc. This DVD to MP4 Converter provides you various
settings options which allow you to control the video quality you get
after converting.
If you want to enjoy the music in DVD disc on your music player, you
can also use this converter to convert the DVD to MP3, FLAC, AAC, AIFF,
WMA and other popular audio formats. After converting, you can enjoy the
DVD music on your music players. Also the settings allow you to define
the acoustic quality of the output audio file.
Besides the basic converting function, Tipard DVD to MP4 Converter is
an useful video editor which allows you to trim the DVD movie into
clips, merge several chapters into one, adjust the video brightness,
saturations, contrast, hue and add your own watermarks.

joi, 4 decembrie 2014

Sketch Drawer is a kind of photo editing software tool intended for
converting photographs to pencil sketches. This program enables users to
make usual photographs into exquisite pencil-drawn pictures, both
black-and-white and colored. While creating a pencil sketch, you can
choose your most preferred settings and options.
There are two ways you can edit photographs with SoftOrbits: manually
and by aid of ready-made presets. These presets can be used as guides
by beginners

miercuri, 3 decembrie 2014

Batch Inpaint is a batch version of Inpaint – photo processing and
retouching tool. While removing an unwanted object from a photo with
Inpaint is easy, it may still consume a lot of time if you have a whole
bunch of pictures to process. Batch removal of typical objects from
images is what Batch Inpaint is designed for.
Watermarks, time stamps, glitches, scratches, facial wrinkles, power
lines, persons accidentally caught by the camera in the very moment of a
shot and other things can be effortlessly erased from photos in
automatic mode.